Opaque pigments and gold on paper, within an inner golden border and an outer ivory border. Probably by a royal court artist of the Punjab Rulers...

Opaque pigments on textile. 94 by 63 cm.

Arabic manuscript on paper, 33 leaves with 2 fly-leaves, 5 lines to each page, written in very elegant large black muhaqqaq script, gold rosette v...

Of deep conical form, painted in lustre heightened in cobalt blue and turquoise on a cream ground, with a central medallion of swimming fish again...

This bronze censer, or incense burner, is composed of two parts that were molded separately. First, a circular base in relief supports a lower hem...

A fine steel turban helmet, of cylindrical form rising to a swollen band of vertical flutes narrowing to a central pointed apex housing a fixing f...

Al-Jazuli's renowned work in praise of the Prophet Muhammad, Arabic manuscript on paper, each folio with 10 lines written in bold sepia Maghribi, ...

Arabic manuscript on paper, each page with 14 lines written in bold black naskh script in clouds reserved against a gold sprinkled ground, gold ro...

Of typical form, the rounded body engraved with elegant floral sprays on hatched ground within hanging medallions with palmettes finials, interspe...

A pottery arch shaped panel consisting of 6 tiles, painted in cobalt blue, turquoise and opaque white with manganese purple with large cartouches ...

Of beaten sheet metal, deep rounded form, the body engraved with overlapping circular medallions containing stellar motifs alternating with oblong...

The curved double-edged blade with central ridge and decorated with cartouches enclosing a flower, the hilt carved with palmettes and rosettes wit...

The tapering, double-edged watered steel blade with central ridge and raised inscription in shaped cartouches chiselled on both faces at the forte...

The hilt with cusped ivory grips with a curved, single-edged, tapering watered-steel blade, decorated with two gold-inlaid cartouches, a small car...

The shield with four applied gilt decorated bronze bosses, the finely carved decoration with a central roundel with cartouches and roundels filled...

The bazuband engraved and gold-damascened with three octograms enclosing figure heads, flanked on both sides with floral sprays filled with a dens...

The body of truncated conical form with flanged base, perforated bands and everted drip-pan, the shaft with globed perforated bulb, the socket of ...

Of rounded form with raised central boss and everted rim, finely incised and decorated with black lac, the interior with a band of roundels contai...

A brass tray of flat circular form with everted rim, the base with central radiating roundel containing strap-work rosette, further encircled by a...

A shirt (jama) covered with text written in thuluth, naskh and ghubari scripts, in assorted colors, roundels and cartouches. The inscriptions incl...

With flat base and slightly sloping sides, the upper edge with slight recess to fit a lid, the exterior wooden surface overlaid in a succession of...

Arabic manuscript on paper backed on silk, written in naskh, thuluth, muhaqqaq and angular Kufic scripts in various colors. 17 by 470 cm. The s...

Arabic manuscript on paper, each folio with 12 lines of elegant black naskh, gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, large gilt and polychrome ...

Gouache color heightened with gold on paper, depicting al-Masjid al-Haram with the kabaa in the centre surrounded by the four Maqams of the Islami...

The lower cubic section surmounted by canopy in the form of a pyramid, one side with opening, of red and green silk profusely embroidered with sil...

A brass tray of rectangular form, profusely inlaid, the central field depicting the Mahmal procession, the border containing cartouches enclosing ...

Cotton covered with text written in a variety of scripts and floral design, including thuluth, naskh scripts, in assorted colors, in numerous pane...

Cotton covered with text written in a variety of scripts and floral design, including thuluth and small square Kufic, in assorted colors, in numer...

A silver bracelet nielloed with two roundels enclosing two facing birds and deer, further stylized with two cartouches of Arabic inscriptions in e...

The cylindrical slightly upward opening body rests on a round base the top is flat and the cylindrical neck has a collar at its lower part and on ...

The watered steel blade with thickened spine, central ridge with raised lobed cartouches, the blade and spine gilt decorated with fighting animals...

A painted steel dispatch box with interior fitted for writing. The case has a lock, the black interior with gilded borders, a central panel enclo...

Decorated in cobalt blue, turquoise and red with medallion shaped cartouches containing tulips and carnations, all within arabesque patterned bord...

A rectangular textile woven fragment, comprising three sections superbly and colourfully embroidered in satin stitch. The red velvet central par...

Of long rectangular form, woven in red, blue, green and cream silk, the central panel with alternating horizontal bands of floral interlace and ca...